Athermalised Beam Expanders for Challenging Applications
For beam focusing applications in environments subject to wide temperature variation, Optical Surfaces Ltd. is able to produce athermalised beam expanders that deliver stable high performance. Optical Surfaces athermalised beam expanders are based upon a Dall-Kirkham...
Off-Axis Paraboloids Enhance Laser Power Density
Optical Surfaces Ltd. reports on increased demand from high power laser research groups around the world for off-axis paraboloid mirrors to be used as the primary focusing element for their Petawatt laser beam lines. Off-axis paraboloids offer the advantage of an...
High Precision Mirrors for Schlieren Imaging
Optical Surfaces Ltd. is a leading producer of high precision mirrors for Schlieren imaging applications involving airflow turbulence, explosive shockwaves, gas leaks and visualisation of transparent thermal phenomena. Drawing upon its uniquely stable manufacturing...
High Throughput Aspheric Lenses
Optical Surfaces Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of high quality aspheric lenses for a wide array of demanding optical applications that involve beam focusing, collimation, expansion or wavefront correction. Aspheric lenses provide a cost effective way of reducing the...
Beam Expanders Help Deliver World’s Most Powerful Laser System
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has supplied to Thales (www.thalesgroup.com) the first of 10 high performance beam expanders for the Extreme Light Infrastructure for Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) project to develop the world’s most powerful laser system. Offering an unprecedented...
Precision Etalon Plates for Fabry Perot Interferometers
Optical Surfaces Ltd is a leading supplier of ultra high precision Etalon plates for use in Fabry-Perot interferometers. Etalons are available in two basic forms, air-spaced or solid. Designed for use at customer-defined wavelengths within the range 190nm to about 2...
On-Axis Parabolic Mirrors
Optical Surfaces Ltd. offers a complete manufacturing and test capability to produce On-Axis Parabolic Mirrors up to 600mm (24-inches) in diameter. All on-axis parabolic mirrors are manufactured to customer specifications and are supplied with full surface quality...